Eye see you...

After searching for the Eyelash fungi for the past few years, we finally found some...

Wow! How small, from a millimetre upto 1cm. We struggled to get any decent photos of them as they were soooooo small.

A little blurb,

The common eyelash fungus might be easily overlooked - this tiny cup fungus grows in damp places on rotting wood. Its scarlet-red, shallow cups have a distinctive fringe of black hairs that look just like eyelashes. Occasionally solitary, it is more often found in clusters. Fungi belong to their own kingdom and get their nutrients and energy from organic matter, rather than photosynthesis like plants. It is often just the fruiting bodies, or 'mushrooms', that are visible to us, arising from an unseen network of tiny filaments called 'hyphae'. These fruiting bodies produce spores for reproduction, although fungi can also reproduce asexually by fragmentation.